@RealTalkRJ@AaronWardDene@DuaneBratt@TaneenRudyk Holy shit you guys are so desperate. 🤣
No, sweethearts. Municipalities are created by the province and are not constitutional actors as defined by the Clarity Act.
NEXT.
Just a note for TPAs out there.
Apparently, for the weekly financial reporting to Elections Alberta, you must log into their site and enter every single donor's information one entry at a time.
You can't upload a spreadsheet, and you can't authorize anybody but the two principals of the TPA to log into the system.
This must be done every Thursday, or there will be a fine.
We have hundreds of donors this week, and I will be painstakingly entering their data into the online form one by one for the next 30 hours or so.
Please accept my apologies if I am slow to reply to inquiries for a little bit.
Elections Alberta has been helpful with the TPA on most fronts, and we certainly won't push back against regulatory compliance.
It's a pretty onerous and primitive system, considering the information could just as easily be uploaded in a single excel document in less than a minute.
Either way, just a heads up for other TPAs. Be sure to set aside a load of time for repetitive data entry
If Alberta stopped sending any money to Ottawa tomorrow... within weeks you'd find out just how much of the so-called federal services we finance.
Ottawa is broke.
The start-up costs of an independent Alberta are nowhere near $400 billion.
Do we need embassies in every country the day after independence?
How are is it to print our own passports? We already have the facilities.
Do we really need Alberta Posts, or can we contract that out to a private organization?
Are border points along the SK, BC and YT urgent? We can quickly staff the ones along the USA border with our own people.
Our courts are sufficient.
We can get someone to physically print some money for us, and back it with the Alberta treasury, or we can just adopt another currency for the short term.
We can net out our share of the debt, with the $300 billion that the CPP Fund owes us.
OAS continues unchanged for anyone already collecting it.
EI takes a month to implement.
It's all fear-mongering. Our ancestors started out with nothing, and built this province. We can do this.
Alberta Fact Check: Elections Alberta confirms Lukaszuk's 'Forever Canada' petition was always a referendum campaign
A spokeswoman for Elections Alberta explained that because Lukaszuk's proposal did not seek to amend the Constitution or introduce new legislation, the only category available under Alberta law was a policy proposal.
https://t.co/MCjF8dfIXa
Alberta’s Treasurer @JasonNixonAB says he doesn’t know how Alberta would sell its oil if Alberta were a new country.
The answer seems obvious: the same way we sell it now — private producers, contracts, pipelines, ports, and global buyers.
Only it would be easier, more profitable, and more beneficial to Albertans without Bill C-69 holding our industry back, or carbon taxes, and Net Zero/Pathways nonsense wasting taxpayer dollars.
Fact Check: At a Calgary press conference about improving surgical access, Premier Danielle Smith fielded a question about the costs of provincial independence with some figures that could be considered misleading or exaggerated.
FULL FACT CHECK: https://t.co/CX0Hn80NLW
Smith adds Trevor Tombe, the oft-quoted economist, has already done some
"back-of-the-envelope calculations"
Didn't this dork also say leaving CPP would be bad for Albertans?
Why do we listen to this clown?